Looking for Napoleonic Fiction, Non-Anglophilic

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Calvinist
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Looking for Napoleonic Fiction, Non-Anglophilic

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Not surprisingly 90% of the stuff written about Napoleon in English is a covert for Albionic hagiography; which is doubly-disinteresting to me.
Does anyone know of Napoleonic-era fiction that is not premised around the Limeys saving the Universe from Proto-Hitler? I.E., the opposite of Sharpes, Master & Commander, etc.
Tolstoy's War and Peace comes to mind, and I suppose some of the Dumas novels do, too. Otherwise my forays into Napoleonic fiction have always run aground on the rocky shores of England.
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Re: Looking for Napoleonic Fiction, Non-Anglophilic

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Maybe learn French and read novels written in that language?

In passing, I'm looking for WWII fiction where the Yanks don't win the war single-handedly. No of any?

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Re: Looking for Napoleonic Fiction, Non-Anglophilic

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Hi,

On the question of WW2, you can consider a couple of books by Konstantine Simonov: Days and Nights, The Living and the Dead. or the series including Put out More Flags, by Eveyln Waugh. Hmm, there is HMS Ulysses, by, I think Alaistair McLeash. All in all, if the author is not from the US, the action is likely not to be US centric.
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